Not sure how legit this person is but if true this is funny.

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Was only recently changed. Because OU coaches (and everywhere else not playing in conference championship) should have been out recruiting yesterday.

Can still make it an official visit weekend but nothing before Friday, essentially.

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Will we have enough players for a team?

In moderation of course. Weed generally causes increased appetite, 99% of these guys need to put on major weight as most every team this year was physically more impressive, especially in the trenches

Couple times a week to supplement the summer & fall workouts might do the trick.

Yep, I just said this. Drag me.

I know a lot of people on this board been pretty hard on Charles, but didn’t know about family matters that were going on. Sharing this since it’s public . His mom was a New Orleans police officer until the hurricane & lost everything and moved to Texas. Amazing lady , hilarious, personality and hard worker.

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UPDATE: I've checked with a few sources and can confirm that Anton Harrison will not be playing in the Sooners 2022 bowl game.

Based on what we've seen this year it feels like we could be seeing the first start of Jacob Sexton's career. - Josh

ORIGINAL: As expected, left tackle Anton Harrison declares for the 2023 NFL Draft. Perhaps nobody raised his stock more than Harrison this past season earning him All-Big 12 first team honors.

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And on we go with our seventh year of the Sooner Survivor Series - the annual Big 12 Survivor Pool.

The rules are simple:

---(READ THIS ONE CAREFULLY, AGAIN) as there are only 10 Big 12 teams we always spend the end of the year filling out the regular season schedule. Well, to keep me from hating my life while filling out 500+ winners (until my BELOVED upset comes in) we’re going to do it in reverse. The first four weeks will be picking ONE winner from three hand picked games around college football. You don’t need to pick the winner of each, you simply pick the winner of ONE of the three games. If you’re right, you advance, if you’re wrong, your season ends early.

---Starting in week five, you’ll pick one Big 12 team each week that you think will win that week's game. If your team wins, you advance to the next week. When a team you picked loses, you are eliminated from the competition. Remember you ARE NOT picking against the spread, these are straight up win/lose scenarios.

---Once we've started the Big 12 segment and you've picked a Big 12 school, you cannot pick them again the rest of the season. This means you have to pick carefully and assess for things like bye weeks, matchups, etc.

---There are no byes for participants. In other words, you have to pick a team every single week. You have to watch later in the season to make sure you have a team to pick every week, because if you get into a situation where every team you have left is on a bye week and can't pick a team, you'll unfortunately be eliminated.

---Also, you MUST have your picks in before the first game on the docket (it will always be the first game listed below).

--- If anyone (or multiple people) can make it all the way through 14 weeks without losing, we'll use the bowl weeks as tie-breakers.

If anyone has any other questions, please feel free to write them below!

And now, here are the options for Week Three.

PRIZES:

1st Place: Free Year of SoonerScoop.com (50$ Gift Card to your choice of Amazon, Best Buy, etc.)
2nd Place: Free Six Months of SoonerScoop.com and your Scoop Shirt of Choice
3rd Place: Free Three Months of SoonerScoop.com and your Scoop Shirt of Choice
4th and 5th: Two Free Months of SoonerScoop.com

Games TBD - we're going to go with championship weekend since I am not convinced everyone would have a chance to pick their big 12 game.

IF everyone gets their picks in, we'll go (just pick your B12 winner WITH score), and if all five pick before 11a Friday 11/25 then we're live.

If not, we'll push.

Sooner Survivor Series 2022

@chasejamy – UNC, TTU, LSU, TAMU – UT, OSU, OU, BU, TCU, ISU, TTU, KSU

@JLawrance – UNC, TTU, WASH, WVU – KU, KSU, OU, BU, TCU, ISU, TTU

@nwsoonerfan – UNC, BYU, LSU, TAMU – KU, OSU, UT, BU, TCU, ISU, TTU, KSU

@rds57 – UNC, BYU, WASH, WVU – UT, OSU, OU, BU, TCU, ISU, TTU, KSU

@RedHillsSooner – UNC, TTU, CUSE, WVU – UT, OSU, OU, BU, TCU, ISU, TTU, KSU

No surprise here. Or it shouldn't be. He could fly up the boards but shouldn't be any worse than 2nd round.

Dang, I'm really old.

What a spectacular athlete, but maybe he should have stayed with one sport.

I'm wondering if anyone on the board deals in sports memorabilia/cards. I haven't in a while, so I'm out of the loop. But my youngest son is wanting some for Christmas. (Particularly a CeeDee Lamb autographed rookie card) Anyone on here deal in that sort of stuff?

Talked about it on the pod this week but truly unfortunate Eric Gray's success on the field couldn't have been celebrated more this year.

Gray rushed for 1,673 yards (6.4 ypc) and 11 touchdowns. His 1,364 yards ranks as the No.9 most on OU’s single-season chart. He rushed for 845 yards over the last six games (averaging 140.8 yards per game). And was selected All-Big 12 second team running back.

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Jesus…E1 might be the most depressing, emotionless EP of any show I’ve watched in years. But damn..I’m all in.

Hudson Card is going portal.

Portal on the Hudson

Would you be willing to give more to the NIL if the current WR coach and LB/DC were replaced with home run hires that meet the “Standard?”

Hard to take this staff serious after what we saw on the field and based on the staff. These guys have no skins on the wall and their position groups weren’t good and weren’t developed.

I would. Hard to take them serious if they think the current staff is top notch and OU standard.

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I truly relish the day we get TBOW and USC in the first round at home...

Fleetwood Mac keyboard player and vocalist dead at 79 after a short illness

This morning Todd on the franchise (in reference to the International SoccerBowl) talked about teams needing to know how to kill the clock to win.

It being a slow day at work and with all of the talk about OU’s clock management vs elite quarterback play being out problem, etc, I started to hypothesize and did a bit of statistical analysis.

The below may have been pointed out elsewhere, but I found interesting patterns that I believe say a lot about the institutional habits that Team 128 brought with them in January of this year.

I focused on 10-pts-or-less games, because as we all know, they account for our 4 straight-up, healthy qb losses. (Football is a game of inches, etc). And I like most of us, sit here in almost amazement at how this team has willed itself into such loses.

And in my opinion, our history in these games paints an objective picture of a team that for at least the last 8 years became very accustomed to winning a certain way, and for whatever reason hasn’t figured out how to win now that the engine of that old way of doing things was taken away overnight.

So what actually came before in similar circumstances?

From 2015 to 2021 OU was involved in 38 games decided by 10 points or less.

OU lost 9 of those games and won 29.

Loss/10pt-games by year:
‘15: 1/4

‘16: 1/5

‘17: 2/6

‘18: 1/6

‘19: 1/6

‘20: 2/4

‘21: 1/7
[as an aside, these account for 9 of 14 total loses during that same period]

In 28 of the 38 games, the victor (OU or opponent) was the last team with a score-able possession in regulation: ie has the ball with around 50 seconds or more on the clock: The Rule.

Of those 10 exceptions to the Rule, OU was the loser only twice. Meaning we had the ball with time to tie or win, and just didn’t.

Put another way: in 38 close games, there were only 2 instances where OU was down, but the offense had both the ball and a realistic chance to tie or take the lead late in the game and failed to do.

2020 KSU rattler throws an INT to end the game

2021 OSU, we don’t convert on downs.

On the other side of the ball:
OU’s defense “beat”the Rule in only 8 of these 38 games.
Ie, the opposing team was driving late but we got a last second INT, they ran out of time, they turned over on downs with like 7 seconds left, a 2 pt conversion failed, or we held on and won in OT. *(More on this below).

And by extension, opponents won by the Rule only 7 times. Ie controlled the ball late and either scored to win or were already winning and ran out the clock.

Thus OU’s offense ultimately “won” by this Rule 21 of 38 times. (38-7-2-8= 21).
*[but again see anomalies below]

More importantly, however: By my calculations the defense only straight up stopped an opposing offense from scoring to win or tie the game late, in regulation, 5 times in 7 years:

2017 Texas(downs) and OSU (INT)

2019 regular season Baylor (INT)

2021 Nebraska (Downs) and ISU (INT)

(The 3 other defensive “wins” are outlined at the end)*

Whereas in 2022:

KSU: bring it within 7, but with only 35 seconds left. (Check my work, but I don’t think something like this ever happened under Riley: a team bringing it within a score, but very little time left for the another scoring possession).

Kansas: won by the Rule

Baylor: lost by the Rule

WVU: lost by the Rule

TTU: lost by the Rule

So why does any of this matter?

To begin with, these statistics seem to be too overwhelming to be coincidental. And instead feel more like a modus operandi, otherwise known as a habit.

And I am a firm believer that habits, either on a personal or institutional level, are hard to reverse.

This is/was a team that is primarily made up of players that are accustomed to a system where 2 things were almost guarantees (and therefore basically the only ways they knew/know how to win by):

Either 1) Blowing teams out of the water on offense so that clock management doesn’t really matter late.

And 2) in close games being able to rely on an offense that could effectively score at-will to easily control the clock late in the game and not even give the defense the chance to **** it up.

This is not to say the coaches this year didn’t make poor choices, or couldn’t have done a better job to prepare the team.

I’m just trying to give objective context to the idea that they are also pushing back on some pretty incompatible outlooks and habits that seem to be entrenched and are evidenced by actual, on-field performance over an extended period of time.

The staff also doesn’t have the “advantage” of OU being terrible when they took over. It’s a lot easier to convince the 2-10 team that the old ways of doing things are trash. Especially when the new way of doing things is more demanding.

This is not to say that there is a lack of buy-in, I frankly have no idea. I’m not a wannabe “insider.”

But to my point, I imagine many of us on this board have, for example, tried to live healthier and struggled to do. So to me it’s just a matter of human nature that these sort of radical changes are hard and take time, with or without great attitude. The difference is simply in the execution.

I will leave it to you to decide if you think the problems this year are lack of elite offensive play willing a team to victory like it used to, bad clock management by the coaching staff, or some other incompetence.

To me, it feels like a chicken or the egg mixture of everything. That to control the clock, you have to be in control of yourself first, but also proper choice in adverse circumstances maybe shouldn’t be made purely off of what you want to happen.

So I believe these are things that can ultimately be fixed with better defense, the coaching staff learning from mistakes, and more entrenched institutional habits that align with what BV and co are trying to do.

BUT at the end of the day problems can be pointed out to no positive result: TBD if these reforms work or are worth it.

You’re welcome to believe OU should have done their best to stick with what was working, that BV shouldn’t have made such radical changes, that this staff is just objectively incompetent and not able to fix this situation, or that OU just won’t have players that are good enough to compete at a national level. But then none of this really matters anyways, and why are you wasting your time and money on the matter.

You are also welcome to declare all of the above as “correlation not meaning causation,”or simply the mad ravings of a lunatic. I pay for this site primarily so I can say shit like this to strangers and not my friends and coworkers.

Let the “sir this is a Wendy’s” reactions commence.

*Notable anomalies alluded to above:

2018 Army: OU has the last score-able possession, misses the winning FG but wins in OT;

2015: tcu failed a 2 Pt conversion but there was still 50 seconds left on the clock, didn’t recover the onside. OU therefore still wins by the Rule.

There are many other instances where the loser scored last, and the victor just killed the clock.

There are also other instances of the victor getting an interception late but with time to score, but simply killing the clock.

2020 Texas ties it last second, loses OT;

2019 ISU missed 2 pt conversion.

2019 Big12 championship, Baylor kills the clock and takes their chances in OT, loses.

Seems like a lot is going on and notes/related content are lacking this week

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Good times…

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My father in law - @ougasdoc - passed away this morning. He was 77 years old and a lifelong Sooner. He went to 70 straight OU/Texass games, graduated from OU med school, and has season tix in football, basketball, and sometimes baseball.

He whooped cancer’s ass for the last 22+ years.

His wife, a former OSU cheerleader, has been fully converted to an OU fan and he has made sure all four of my daughters attended several OU sporting events, including softball and basketball, to help grow their fandom.

He is my favorite person to watch games with.

He is my father in law, but more than that, he is my friend. He is missed and loved.

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The entire crew is back to talk about the start of portal season. And FAIR WARNING we are not reporting anything about players getting ready to portal who haven't. We're just speculating about players who might be possibilities to look elsewhere after this 6-6 season. We know Jordan Mukes and Theo Wease are entering the portal. And we know Eric Gray has been invited to the Senior Bowl. But what do we think about the chances of Dillon Gabriel leaving? Marvin Mims? Could C.J. Coldon return. Who might surprise us by entering the portal. National signing day is starting to approach and we have some interesting news coming out about Peyton Bowen. What is Josh's read on the situation? We also talk about closing out the 2023 class with signing day a few weeks away. And Bob is the king of the show because hoops is outstanding right now.

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The full rundown follows below:

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0:00 - Portal SZN has arrived

34:00 - Recruiting. Peyton Bowen ready?

47:00 - Theo Wease enters the Portal/2019 class review

56:00 - Closing out the 2023 recruiting class

1:03:00 - In wake of the Anthony Evans decommit ... where does Oklahoma go?

1:07:00 - Porter Moser's Championship Team